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Jewelry/Items: Hegwood was wearing a gold Bulova Acutron watch with a green safety cross on its face and the name "Robert E. Bell" engraved on the back at the time of his disappearance. He was also carrying a .25-caliber RG Model 26 pistol with serial number U020365.

Circumstances of Disappearance

Hegwood was last seen in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on March 20, 1980. He has never been heard from again.

Hegwood enjoyed hunting, fishing and canoing in 1980. He was employed as a bartender at the time of his disappearance.

Investigators
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This is a local case for me but one I'd never heard of until seeing it on here. Of course, it did happen two years before I was born. I wish I could help with it but there's just nothing to go on. The name does sound vaguely familiar though.

This is local for me too, and I'm anxious to hear more info! I'd never heard of it either, but I was two years old when it happened.

When I was studying journalism at Southern Miss in Hattiesburg, we were assigned a cold case to dig into for our investigative reporting class (we wrote articles about Angela Freeman, missing teen from nearby Petal, Miss., which is what really spurred my interest in missing persons). If enough info exists about the circumstances of Jeffrey's dissapearance, then maybe the current crop of students could do a similar project on him!

Hattiesburg Police Department...

I concur. You could contact them at the number in the case file. If they have this as one of their jurisdictional cases, then they will have more information on it.

These missing person cases can involve almost any kind of situation. There were at least three cases in the last year in which a living person came forward or was found and their very long term "missing" status resolved.

Of course, there are numerous missing person cases which are resolved by the person showing up days, weeks or months later. The requirement for a case getting on Doenetwork is that the person has to have been missing for nine years or more, so when one of them turns up alive somewhere, it is a rather newsworthy occasion.

In this particular case, if an investigator were to contact the man in the photo, it might resolve the case one way or another. Even if he is NOT the missing Jeffery Hegwood, he might know something.

I do think they look very much alike. The mouth is exact (look at the outline of the top lip) The smile, the jaw, the dimples. It's crazy but I think it's him. I'm going to do it. I was right about Lafreda Chrispen, so u never know.

I do think they look very much alike. The mouth is exact (look at the outline of the top lip) The smile, the jaw, the dimples. It's crazy but I think it's him. I'm going to do it. I was right about Lafreda Chrispen, so u never know.

edit-sent email last night to HPD.

Good! PLEASE keep us posted. I really think the resemblance is amazing.

I was contacted on my blog by someone claiming they are Jeff's brother. He said this is still an active case and that Jeff bought the watch and gun at a pawn shop sometime before he disapeared. I invited him to join us here. He also said that he does not believe that the Jeff in Ga resembles his brother.

I was contacted on my blog by someone claiming they are Jeff's brother. He said this is still an active case and that Jeff bought the watch and gun at a pawn shop sometime before he disapeared. I invited him to join us here. He also said that he does not believe that the Jeff in Ga resembles his brother.

Just found your blog sleuthster. Looks like I'm gonna be up all night reading... yet again. I think the pic.'s look similar too.

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